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on July 4. At this time, it was chiefly Hmited to the question 

 of the number of deputies to be admitted. This number varied 

 from two to twenty, twelve being the number most generally 

 approved of during the debate. Turkheim of Strasbourg, who 

 spoke July 3, favored two depvities only because he felt that this 

 was enough to represent 30,000 people, for the blacks, " who were 

 neither free nor French, could not be represented by their 

 masters. "^^*' Bouche, Montesquiou and Garat, who also spoke 

 July 3, favored four deputies. Bouche said, that four should be 

 admitted with right to vote and that these should be taken from 

 the colony itself. -^^ By another source, we are told that he 

 wished two others to have the right to adrise the four deputies, 

 but that these advisers should be chosen from those residing in 

 France."^® Montesquiou desired four deputies with right to vote, 

 the remaining fourteen to form a consultative committee.^®^ 

 Garat said that the population of the whites in the island was in 

 round numbers about 40,000; that among the deputies of the 

 commons there were few who did not represent 50,000 but, as in 

 every deputation in France there were at least four, counting 

 the clergy and nobles, the same number should be granted San 

 Domingo.^°° Garat called attention to an article in his cahier 

 which instructed him to vote for the freedom of the slaves of the 



" Dans la plupart des bureau on fut d'avis de n'accorder que 3 deputa- 

 tions composee chacune de deux deputes, parceque dans cette isle il n'y 

 a ni nobles possedant fiefs, ni ecclesiastiques possedant benefices. Tous 

 les habitans sont colons, proprietaires ou planteurs. Une des raisons de 

 cette triple deputation fut la division de cette colonic en 3 parties a peu 

 pres egales." 



296 Point du jour, I, 99 ; Duquesnoy, Journal, I, 160. 



2^'^ Point du jour, I, 100; Assemblee nationale, I, 327; Bulletins de I'as- 

 semblee nationale, July 3, states he wished four deputies and two sub- 

 stitutes. 



298 Point du jour, I, 100. 



^^^ Assemblee nationale, 1, 332; Biauzat, Sa vie et sa correspondance, II, 

 157, does not state the number he desired but that he opposed the number 

 which the colony asked ; Bulletins de I'assemblee nationale, July 3 ; Ga- 

 zette de Leyde, Sup. No. 56 (July 5), simply mentions him as speaking; 

 Point du jour, I, 100. 



3o<> Courrier de Provence, I, i6th letter, 17. 



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